Michelle Obama says the quiet part out loud, exposing her own terrifying view of the government

The Blaze ^ | January 9, 2024 | Chris Enloe

[Twotone]

Former first lady Michelle Obama is "terrified" over the possible outcome of the upcoming presidential election.

In a recent podcast interview, Jay Shetty asked Obama what keeps her up at night. At first, she listed common fears: war, how artificial intelligence will change society, the climate, phone addictions, and "knowing too much," referring to her husband once being the leader of the free world and thus privy to the most sensitive of information.

But then she listed the 2024 election.

"What's going to happen in this next election? I am terrified about what could possibly happen because our leaders matter. Who we select, who speaks for us, who holds that bully pulpit — it affects us in ways that, sometimes, I think people take it for granted," Obama said.

"You know, the fact that people think that government — 'Eh, does it really even do anything?' — And I'm like, 'Oh my God, does government do everything for us, and we cannot take this democracy for granted.' And sometimes, I worry that we do. Those are the things that keep me up," she explained.

You heard that right: Michelle Obama thinks government does "everything" for us and is scared that some Americans may disagree with her.

The remark highlights a view of government that, ironically, would have terrified the founding fathers, who believed in limited government — not an enormous centralized bureaucracy that employs millions of people and controls nearly every aspect of society.

Indeed, Thomas Jefferson famously wrote in 1821:

When all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another and will become as venal and oppressive as the government from which we separated.

It's not surprising that a progressive ideologue like Michelle Obama believes the government does "everything" for us, though it is surprising to hear her say it out loud.

Ironically, it is precisely Obama's view of the government that terrifies those who disagree with her.

[Steely Tom]

They feared mob rule in the form of “democracy.” That’s why they tried to place restrictions on voters (not abhorrent to all woke types) to prevent a hysterical current fad at any given time from crushing the rights of the minority.

Yeah, but some of them were slave owners, so the whole document must be declared racist and done away with.

[frank ballenger]

Yes, that goes without saying. The founding of America as a place to build a slavery system in the 1600s as kids learn in elementary school shows that.

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Slavery today is much more widespread-—with none allowed in the United States.

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Of the ten to sixteen million Africans who survived the voyage to the New World, more than one-third landed in Brazil and between 60 and 70 percent ended up in Brazil or the sugar colonies of the Caribbean. Only 6 percent arrived in what is now the United States.—Gilder Lehrman Inst. of Am. History

The Guardian:
Experts have calculated that roughly 13 million people were captured and sold as slaves between the 15th and 19th centuries; today, an estimated 40.3 million people – more than three times the figure during the transatlantic slave trade – are living in some form of modern slavery, according to the latest figures ...Feb 25, 2019

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50 million people worldwide in modern slavery.
International Labour Organization
Sep 12, 2022 — The number of people in modern slavery has risen significantly in the last five years. 10 million more people were in modern slavery in 2021.

[ridesthemiles]

SHE /HE KNOWS BARRY WAS NEVER ELIGIBLE.

[sauropod]

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[Steely Tom]

Around ten million went to Brazil.

[Steely Tom]

IIRC, the total number that went to the United States was around 400,000.

[frank ballenger]

I’ll track that to make sure the reparations we pay out go their symbolic and metaphorical “descendants” soon.

[MileHi]

referring to her husband once being the leader of the free world and thus privy to the most sensitive of information.

That's a problem. What is her/his security clearance?

[vpintheak]

Yep.

[BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan]

The list of things that terrify Moochelle about Trump getting re-elected is the same list of things that delight me thinking about Trump’s second term.